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W. H. PAYNE. POCKET POWDER PUFF AND INHALER DEVICE.

No. 478,358. Patented July 5, 1892.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT GFTICE.

WVILLIAM H. PAYNE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOE, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO ADELINE E. HOSKINS, OF SAME PLACE.

POCKET POWDER-PUFF AND INHALER DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 478,358, dated July 5,1892.

Application filed February 16, 1892. Serial No. 421,722. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIA H. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefullmprovementsin Pocket Powder-Puffs and Inhaling Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

Theprincipal.objec'tof mypresentinvention is to provide a compact, neat,and comparatively inexpensive article or device adapted for use both asa smellinggbgllfiygmgaler and as a powle and piiff and of such generalconstruction and arrangement as to permit of the closing up of the samewhen not in use, so as to be carried either in the hand or in thepocket.

My invention consists of theimprovements hereinafter described andclaimed.

The general characteristic features of my invention will be more fullyunderstood from the following description,taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is anelevation of a pocket device or article embodying features of myinvention and showing the parts thereof arranged in closed position forpermitting the device to be carried in the hand or in the pocket. Fig. 2is a central section of Fig. 1,showing the construction and arrangementof the internal parts of the device. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing thedevice arranged for use as a powder-box and puff, and Fig. 4 is asimilar view showing the device arranged for use as asmelling-tube orinhaling device.

In the drawings, a is the body portion of the pocket device or article.This body a is preferably cylindrical in form and is provided with anexpanded extremity a, a contracted extremity a and a transverselyrangingpartition a intermediate of the respective extremities. This partition adivides the inte rior of the body a into two compartments 1) and c for apurpose to be presently described.

(1 is a powder-puff comprising a socket d, adapted for the reception ofa pad or puff d and provided with an acorn or other preferred form ofhandle (1 The expanded portion a of the body a is adapted for thereception of the puff or pad 01 and the extremity of this expandedportion is provided with a lip 19', which engages with the cheeks d ofthe powder-puff cl and forms a tight joint, so that the powder-puff d isdetachably connected with the expanded extremity of the body a and isadapted to tightly close the open end of the compartment 17.

e is a nozzle fitted into the contracted extremity a of the body a andprovided with a perforated diaphragm e, which serves to retain a mass ofsponge or other absorbent material e to place in the compartment 0.

c are a series" of radial apertures formed in the contracted portion orof the body a and communicating with the interior of the compartment 0,so that the latter and its accessories constitute an effectivesmelling-tube or inhaling device.

f is a detachable cap adapted to be fitted onto and over the contractedextremity a of the body C6, in order to close the apertures c and coverthe nozzle e.

In use the chamber 1) is partially filled with powder, and the sponge orother absorbent material 6 is saturated with a suitable mixture. Ifpreferred, the sponge (2 may be dispensed with and smelling-salts maybeintro duced into the chamber 0 by removing the nozzle 6. The device maybe used as a powder-puff by permitting the capf to close the contractedend a of the body a, Fig. 3, and then using the powder-puff (Z, inconnection with the supply of powder in the chamber 12, in the usual orin any other preferred manner, and the device may be used as an inhalingdevice or smelling-tube by returning the powder-puff d to its normalposition in the chamber 11 and then removing the capf, Fig. 4, in orderto permit of the application of the nozzlef to the nostrils in the usualor in any other preferred manner, it being understood that the aperturesc serve to admit air, which, after traversing the contents of thechamber 0, is inhaled by the user. Moreover, the perforated diaphragm 6serves to retain the contents of the chamber 0, without in any wiseinterfering with the operation of the inhaling device or smelling-tube.

By fitting the cap fand puif d to place in the respective extremities ofthe body a, Fig.

panded extremity, a nozzle adapted for insertion into said contractedextremity, and a detachable cap adapted to be fitted over said nozzleand onto said contracted extremity, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence oftwo subscribing 20 witnesses.

\VILLIAM H. PAYNE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. CLEMENT, (J. P. HosKINs.

